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Barbara Demick
@BarbaraDemick
Journalist and author: Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town; Nothing to Envy (N. Korea) and Logavina Street (Bosnia), visiting prof Princeton.
New York, USAbarbarademick.comJoined March 2009
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Dr. Jeffrey Lewis
@ArmsControlWonk
"Sirens and possible evacuation warnings have sounded in Seoul." This is so dumb. It was a space launch out over the ocean. It's like if Japan issued shelter in place warnings every time South Korea did a space launch.
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Josh Smith
@joshjonsmith
South Korea's military says North Korea has launched a Space Launch Vehicle. Sirens and possible evacuation warnings have sounded in Seoul
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Lindsey Hilsum
@lindseyhilsum
One of the best journalists at the BBC is going to pastures new. We will miss her incisive reporting and presenting.
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Razia Iqbal
@raziaiqbal
Personal news - After more than three decades, my career at the BBC is drawing to a close. I leave in the summer & am so grateful for the brilliance of colleagues; the trust people put in us to tell their stories & transformative adventures 🙏🏽🙏🏽..new horizons beckon!
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Cambridge Literary Festival
@camlitfest
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@BGPrize
Winner of Winners event!👑 Delighted to announce we'll be joined by
@BarbaraDemick
, Craig Brown and
@praddenkeefe
, all shortlisted for this year's ultimate prize... Tickets via link below.
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BaillieGiffordPrize
@BGPrize
Join us 23rd April at @camlitfest to hear three of our shortlisted #WinnerofWinners authors - @BarbaraDemick, Craig Brown and @praddenkeefe - speak about how they are feeling ahead of the winner announcement: cambridgeliteraryfestival.com/events/baillie #books
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@BarbaraDemick
Nobody can read with a dry eye... so many of my friends have lost parents the last three years..
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LenaSun
@bylenasun
I've been covering the pandemic for the last three years. I lost my mother and my sister. Those losses have taught me about grief, and grieving, and also joy. washingtonpost.com/health/2023/03
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Rachel Hagan
@rachelhagan_
Terrifying to read that N Korea has hit its worst point since the famine in the 90s which caused mass starvation and killed hundreds of thousands of people. Especially having just read
@BarbaraDemick
’s astounding book on this tragic nation.
cnn.com
North Korea's food shortage is about to take a deadly turn for the worse, experts say | CNN
Concerns about North Korea's chronic food shortages are growing, with multiple sources suggesting this week that deaths due to starvation are likely.
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Barbara Demick
@BarbaraDemick
One of the smart things about Kyiv. Free co-working spaces with generators to provide electricity and wi-fi during Russian attacks.
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Trip Gabriel
@tripgabriel
National debt contributions (FYs) Biden $1.84T Trump (4 years) $8.2T Obama (8 years) $8.3T Bush (8 years) $6.1T Clinton (8 years) $1.4T sounddollar.com/national-debt-
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Kevin McCarthy
@SpeakerMcCarthy
If you have teenagers, and they spend past the limit on a credit card—you pay for it. But you don’t allow their bad spending habits to continue. You change their behavior so it never happens again. Now it’s time for Washington to change its behavior too.
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Matt Neglia
@NextBestPicture
BEYOND UTOPIA is one of the best #Sundance documentaries. A thrilling, emotional & informative look at various North Koreans hoping to flee from oppression to freedom. This powerful act of bravery gripped me from beginning to end & had me in tears multiple times. Truly excellent.
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Barbara Demick
@BarbaraDemick
My very talented friend makes an air filter
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LenaSun
@bylenasun
NEW: After three years of covering covid, I built my own air filter. Here is the video in which I try not to get stuck in duct tape while making this Corsi-Rosenthal box. washingtonpost.com/health/2023/01
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Sue Mi Terry
@SueMiTerry
Proud & humbled to be one of the producers--my first foray into film-making--to have this film chosen for the Sundance. This is a compelling, human story of escaping North Korea. Can't wait to see how viewers respond. #Sundance2023
festival.sundance.org
Beyond Utopia | Sundance Film Festival
Hidden camera footage augments this perilous, high-stakes journey as we embed with families attempting to escape oppression, ultimately revealing a world most of us have never seen.
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